Deep Spanish Quotes

"Amar es batallar, si dos se besan el mundo cambia."

To love is to battle; if two people kiss, the world changes.

— Octavio Paz

"Amar es encontrar en la felicidad de otro tu propia felicidad."

To love is to find your own happiness in the happiness of another.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

"Arrieros somos y en el camino nos encontraremos."

We are muleteers, and on the road we will meet.

— Anonymous (Traditional Proverb)

"Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda."

Even if a monkey dresses in silk, it's still a monkey.

— Tomás de Iriarte

"De todas las cosas que he perdido, lo que más extraño es mi mente."

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

— Various (Disputed Origin)

"Dime de qué presumes y te diré de qué careces."

Tell me what you brag about, and I'll tell you what you lack.

— Anonymous

"Donde habite el olvido, en los vastos jardines sin aurora."

Where oblivion dwells, in the vast gardens without dawn.

— Luis Cernuda

"El amor es ciego."

Love is blind.

— Proverb

"El amor es una pregunta que no tiene respuesta."

Love is a question that has no answer.

— Anonymous (often attributed to Octavio Paz)

"El amor verdadero no tiene final feliz, porque el amor verdadero nunca termina."

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends.

— Anonymous / Widely misattributed to Pablo Neruda

"El dolor es la única virtud que puede ser medida."

Pain is the only virtue that can be measured.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"El infierno está lleno de buenas intenciones."

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

— Proverb

"El pez grande se come al chico."

The big fish eats the little one.

— Traditional Proverb

"El que la hace, la paga."

Whoever does the deed, pays the price.

— Traditional Proverb

"El que mucho habla, mucho yerra."

He who speaks a lot, makes many mistakes.

— Traditional Proverb

"El recuerdo es el único paraíso del que no nos pueden expulsar."

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled.

— Jean Paul

"El vivo vive del bobo y el bobo de su trabajo."

The clever one lives off the fool, and the fool off his work.

— Anonymous (Popular Saying)

"En tierra de ciegos, el tuerto es rey."

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

— Anonymous (Proverb)

"En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme."

In a place in La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall.

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido."

So short is love, and so long is forgetting.

— Pablo Neruda

"Hay dos clases de hombres: los que viven hablando de las mujeres y los que hablan con ellas."

There are two kinds of men: those who spend their lives talking about women, and those who talk with them.

— Antonio Machado

"Hoy es siempre todavía."

Today is always, still.

— Antonio Machado

"La envidia va tan flaca y amarilla porque muerde y no come."

Envy goes so skinny and yellow because it bites but does not eat.

— Francisco de Quevedo

"La pluma es la lengua del alma."

The pen is the tongue of the soul.

— Miguel de Cervantes

"La poesía es un arma cargada de futuro."

Poetry is a weapon loaded with future.

— Gabriel Celaya

"La realidad es mejor que los sueños."

Reality is better than dreams.

— Luis Buñuel

"La soledad es la patria de los fuertes."

Solitude is the homeland of the strong.

— Pío Baroja

"La soledad no es estar solo, es estar vacío."

Loneliness is not being alone, it's being empty.

— Attribution Uncertain

"La verdad adelgaza y no quiebra, y siempre anda sobre la mentira como el aceite sobre el agua."

Truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always rises above falsehood like oil on water.

— Miguel de Cervantes

"La vida es una herida absurda."

Life is an absurd wound.

— Federico García Lorca

"Las canas pelan, no aconsejan."

Gray hair reveals age, it doesn't grant wisdom.

— Anonymous

"Los pueblos no se liberan si no es a costa de grandes sacrificios."

A people's freedom is only won through great sacrifice.

— José Martí

"Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente."

I like you when you're quiet because you are as if absent.

— Pablo Neruda

"Morir, dormir, tal vez soñar."

To die, to sleep, perchance to dream.

— William Shakespeare

"No hay mayor desprecio que no hacer aprecio."

There is no greater scorn than to show no appreciation.

— Traditional Spanish Proverb

"Para que nada nos separe, que nada nos una."

So that nothing separates us, let nothing unite us.

— Pablo Neruda

"Pies, ¿para qué los quiero si tengo alas para volar?"

Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly?

— Frida Kahlo

"Podrá nublarse el sol eterno."

The eternal sun may be clouded over.

— Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

"Pueblo chico, infierno grande."

Small town, big hell.

— Traditional Spanish Proverb

"Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche."

I can write the saddest lines tonight.

— Pablo Neruda

"Ser famoso es una desventaja para pasar desapercibido."

Being famous is a disadvantage for going unnoticed.

— Jorge Luis Borges

"Soy de un país que ha sufrido, es parte de mi identidad."

I am from a country that has suffered, it is part of my identity.

— Víctor Jara

"Te quiero no por quien eres, sino por quien soy cuando estoy contigo."

I love you not for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you.

— Gabriel García Márquez (Attributed)

"Traté de ahogar mis penas, pero ellas aprendieron a nadar."

I tried to drown my sorrows, but they learned how to swim.

— Frida Kahlo

"Vivir es caer sin cesar."

To live is to fall ceaselessly.

— Octavio Paz